Filmmakers coming off a big Oscar win tend to take a year or more to sift through their options. Ang Lee, who won the director Oscar in 2013, still hasn't started shooting his next film.
But "Birdman's" Alejandro G. Iñárritu — winner on Sunday...

The trailer for Guillermo del Toro's new movie "Crimson Peak" is out and aims to scare.
The movie is a supernatural haunted house story, a creepy period piece, and a romance movie all rolled into one. It's del Toro's attempt to make "the most beautiful...

Guillermo del Toro ("Hellboy," "Blade II") gets a lot of credit from fans for his visual imagination, but I must admit that not until 2013's "Pacific Rim" did he helm a movie I really enjoyed. Yes, I've seen "Pan's Labyrinth," which I maintain is episodic and just OK.
I'd be lying if I said "Crimson Peak," del Toro's new film whose trailer arrived over the weekend, looked like the most original horror movie of all time. A creepy house that may contain ghosts? Good luck doing something new in that old...

Charlie Hunnam is embarking on a journey to "Lost City of Z," filmmaker James Gray's adaptation of the bestselling nonfiction book by David Grann.
The "Sons of Anarchy" star will portray Col. Percival Fawcett, a British explorer who disappeared in the 1920s while searching for a mythical city in the Amazon jungles that he believed he discovered on a prior expedition.
Hunnam joins previously announced cast members Sienna Miller and Robert Pattinson in the film, which is being produced by Brad Pitt's...

The opening sequence of "The Simpsons" is iconic. Which makes sense because it's been playing on TV everywhere since 1989. But it's hard to realize just how iconic it is until someone decides to re-create it in another style.
Animators Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon have painstakingly re-created the opening sequence in the style of many video games from the 1990s, complete with an 8-bit version of Danny Elfman's theme song.
Fans of old Nintendo games will find several references to "Super Mario Bros."...

Fury
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Available on VOD on Tuesday
Brad Pitt plays a steely tank commander in writer-director David Ayer's World War II thriller, which is a departure from the "Training Day" / "End of Watch" screenwriter's usual Los Angeles crime stories. Though no less violent and macho than Ayer's previous work, "Fury" is a lot less cynical, focusing on small acts of heroism in the waning days of the war without denying the dehumanizing brutality of combat. Aside from its 134-minute...

The Producers Guild of America, a major bellwether for the best picture Oscar, announced on Monday the nominees for its Darryl F. Zanuck producer of the year award for motion pictures: “American Sniper,” “Birdman,” “Boyhood,” “Foxcatcher,” “Gone Girl,” “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “The Imitation Game,” “Nightcrawler,” “The Theory of Everything” and “Whiplash.”
Notably missing from the...

"American Sniper," "Birdman," "Boyhood," "Foxcatcher," "Gone Girl," "Grand Budapest Hotel," "The Imitation Game," "Nightcrawler," "The Theory of Everything" and "Whiplash" have been nominated for the Producers Guild of America's Darryl F. Zanuck Award for top feature film.
The winner will be announced Jan. 24 in the PGA's 26th annual awards ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. The PGA has about 6,000 members.
"Nightcrawler" was probably the biggest surprise among the 10 nominees, while "A Most...